Yeah, but respectfully, the issue with faith (and to clarify, I mean Christianity in particular) is when people use it to impact the world negatively and without thinking. There's few things that anger me more than when I hear people justify things such as views opposing abortion and gay marriage with the Bible when they should be using logic, reason, and evidence. Basically, any time I hear a Christian referencing the Bible in an argument and thinking that that's reason enough to make their beliefs true, I start raging. Of course, that's not to say that Christians don't help the world as well; everyone knows they do a shit ton for charity and I'm pretty sure everyone's perfectly fine with that.

I heard once that the Dalai Lama said that there have never been a war about religion- only war using religion as an excuse. That's something I take to heart. People will use the word "God" to justify anything, as God is someone we have to visualize and personify ourselves. If you took away a homophobic man's Bible, he wouldn't stop being homophobic. He found something he doesn't understand and used God as justification not to learn or accept. He cherry-picks words from the Bible in order to protect his view of people.

I think the same way is true for the good that Churches do. Like charity- the book didn't make them, they chose to in the name of the book.

The issue isn't faith, it's ignorant people using whatever excuse they could find to justify hatred and using that justification to influence other ignorant people.

Thank you, so few people understand that the concept of faith is belief in something you can't prove. That is the strict definition. When people try to "debunk" religion, their first try is at proof and they are already going wrong. There is no proof to be found, because otherwise it would be a scientific study, not a religion. I'm not picking sides here, and I'm definitely not insulting religion because, even though I am not religious, I feel it contributes greatly to society and have respect for it. Simply put, provable beliefs are science, un-provable beliefs are religion.